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EDITORIALS BY JOHN RUANE
Union Pacific
Railroad Robbed
Fowl Play Ruled Out
"It's a Swine on Swine Crime"
Victorville California
A Union Pacific train was sidelined for an emergency. While the cars were standing still, daring desparados descended on the waylaid railroad and made off with 20 boxes of prime cargo.
~NPR reports that police speculated that the bandits didn't know what they were stealing. The swag was swine dogs, two hundred cases of pickled pigs feet.
~The take wasn't as great as the Union Pacific Big Springs $60,000 robbery of 1877 or the Union Pacific Wilcox $3,000 robbery of 1899. The purloined porcine product had a street value of $200.
~ "See, that proves there's no inflation," Sun Economic Analyst Kathy Baird, said.
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~It's official. Danica May Camacho of the Philippines was born on October 31; that makes her number 1! The United Nations announced her birth as the youngest person in a population of 7 billion. Membors of the GOP have demanded a recount and Faux News has demanded to see her birth certificate.
~Click on image above to go directly to the BBC population computer, enter your birth date and find out exactly what your number is.
Is Rupert Murdoch Really a Monster?
~Michael Wolff is the author of a biography on Mr. Murdoch called The Man Who Owns the News. In speaking of an affair with a girlfriend named Wendi, Mr. Wolff wrote: "This monster, this control freak, this cold bastard, is as blissfully helpless in the face of a determined woman of lowly rank as any lonely, erotically deprived, death-fearing man would be..."
~William Shawcross, author a the biography Murdoch" quoted Charlie Wilson about the Chicago-Sun Times: "It was a classic Murdoch-monster-situation." Wilson said he felt like the running dog of a Cyclops." He said the newsroom was a "cauldron of hatred." Mr. Wilson, an editor, said he devoted time trying to convince the staff that Mr. Murdoch was "not Satan."
~During Mr. Murdoch's reign, the Sun-Times improved it's content, getting away from "Rabbi Hit In 'Sex Slavery' Scandal" type of stories.
~Lately, Mr. Murdoch's media enterprises are the center of Scotland Yard investigations for stealing cellphone messages of politicians, sports stars, celebs, entertainers and others.
Illustration by Tiki Parrot - By Charlie Perry, Publisher
From Our Washington News Bureau:
~~~ ~Yet another scandal is bubbling up at Rupert Murdochs News Corp. On Tuesday, the Murdoch-owned Dow Jones announced that the publisher of The Wall Street Journals European edition was resigning, without mentioning why. The next day, The Wall Street Journal reported that the top European exec stepped down after an internal ethics investigation found he had pressured reporters to write two positive stories about a Dutch firm with which the paper had an agreement that helped boost circulation figures. But that was just the beginning. (Click Here For More)
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